The Washington Department of Health interviewed leadership at Seattle Children's in November 2019 to determine why cardiac surgeries were still being conducted in operating rooms without advanced air filtration systems, according to a state report cited by NBC affiliate King 5. 

The average human body temperature has dropped in the United States since the 19th century, according to a study published in the journal eLife.

A bill that would have ended religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for public school students in New Jersey failed to pass the state Senate, The New York Times reported.

According to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the current season's influenza vaccine is "not a very good match" for the B/Victoria strain of the flu, which is the most common strain of the current season, CNN reports.

Within the same hospital, black and Latina women face a higher risk of experiencing pregnancy-or childbirth-related health issues compared to white women, according to a study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed new disciplinary laws for state physicians and medical professionals, according to The Leader.

Americans in 2019 were 10 percent less likely to believe vaccinating children is important than in 2001, according to a Gallup poll published Jan. 14.

A 33-year-old patient fell from a sixth floor window at New Brunswick, N.J.-based St. Peter's University Hospital and survived, landing on a lower-level rooftop, New Brunswick Today reports.

The World Health Organization recently published a list of 13 urgent health challenges that global leaders must work together to address this decade.

Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center set up an overflow tent in its parking lot to manage an increasing volume of flu patients, reports CBS Los Angeles.

A tourist infected with the new strain of coronavirus, linked to the pneumonia outbreak in China, is being treated in a hospital in Thailand, World Health Organization officials confirmed Jan. 13.

So far in 2020, five states have reported influenza-related deaths among children for the current season.

CMS is launching a streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals, beginning in March.

A healthy patient expecting her fourth child died after receiving pain medication at Memorial Hospital-Bakersfield (Calif.), 23ABC News reports.

Wisconsin reported that a child younger than 10 years has died from influenza, according to WDJT-TV, a CBS affiliate.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis in Sacramento, Calif., has opened applications for its new fellowship program for nurse leaders and innovators.

The Idaho Division of Veterans Services requested hundreds of thousands of dollars to help retain nurses at Veterans Affairs facilities, citing difficulties due to an unchanging $7.25 per hour minimum wage while neighboring states raise minimums, the Post-Register reports.

About one-third of attending physicians and residents in a New York hospital said they wore their white coats for a week or more before washing them, a new survey found.

Michigan reported the first influenza-associated deaths among children in the 2019-2020 flu season.

The use of robotic surgery at Michigan hospitals saw a nearly eightfold increase from 2012 to 2018, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.